cater
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Is cater a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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Definition
verb (English)
1. To provide, particularly:Examples: "Noe widdowes curse caters a dish of mine."; "Priya’s parents’ Hinduism seemed to present conflicting views of sex: […] What people don’t know about the Kama Sutra is that it’s actually a text that … very heavily caters to Madonna/whore complexes. That it’s actually quite misogynistic. And that it’s actually catered more for male pleasure and … males always will have the upper hand according to the Kama Sutra."; "Huludao’s Xingcheng county and two districts have ordered entertainment venues such as theatres and cinemas to close, while restaurants are not to offer banqueting services or cater for large gatherings."
2. To provide, particularly:Examples: "I catered for her bat mitzvah."; "His company catered our wedding."; "He that doth the Rauens feede, Yea prouidently caters for the Sparrow."ambitransitive
3. To provide, particularly:Examples: "I always wanted someone to cater to my every whim."; "Art... was... catering to the national taste and vanity."; "And on the other side of the enter key, they would almost invariably find forums collectively celebrating individuals’ secret desires, or enterprising smut-mongers catering directly to them."figurativelyintransitive
4. To provide, particularly:Examples: "The business caters for young professionals."; "A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's"."; "The former were catered for both by liquor stores and, to a lesser extent, by the bottle shops of hotels."figurativelyintransitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Synonym of acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.Examples: "I am oure Catour and bere oure Alther purse."; "Rec. for iij calvys off þe cater of Crystis Cherche."Synonyms: acaterobsolete
2. (obsolete) Synonym of caterer: any provider of food.Examples: "Of his diete catour was scarsite..."Synonyms: catererobsolete
3. (figurative, obsolete) Synonym of purveyor: any provider of anything.Examples: "The eye is loues Cator."Synonyms: purveyorfigurativelyobsolete
verb (English)
1. (UK dialect) To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.Examples: "The trees are set checkerwise, and so catred [Latin: partim in quincuncem directis], as looke which way ye wyl, they lye leuel."; "‘Cater’ across the rails ever so cleverly, you cannot escape jolt and jar."UKdialectal
adv (English)
1. (UK dialect, US) Diagonally.Examples: "Cater and Cater-cornered, diagonal; diagonally. To ‘cut cater’ in the case of velvet, cloth, etc., is... ‘cut on the cross’. Cater-snozzle, to make an angle; to ‘mitre’."UKUSdialectalnot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (rare, obsolete) Four.Examples: "The auditour... cometh in with sise sould, and cater denere, for vi.s. and iiii.d."obsoleterare
2. (card games, dice games, obsolete) The four of cards or dice.Examples: "Cater is a very good caste."obsolete
3. (music) A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.Examples: "The very terms of the art are enough to frighten an amateur. Hunting, dodging... caters, cinques, etc."; "Cater... The name given by change ringers to changes of nine bells. The word should probably be written quaters, as it is meant to denote the fact that four couples of bells change their places in the order of ringing."
Definition source: Wiktionary